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Cheers for the comments guys! :)

Tom - I'd happily roll your arches for you, or lend you the tool to have a go yourself! As long as you keep the paint soft with a heat gun, and just go easy with it, it's simple! I had to cut off bits of inner arch to get better clearance, but that's because of the amount of poke my rears have!

Mine still scrubs with a bit of weight in the back, which is annoying. Might look into getting stiffer springs on the rear, but I'm not sure where to begin looking!

Did a big scarey job on mine today! It kept going into limp mode if I went over 2800rpm, but if I switched it off and on again, it'd be ok again. Vag-Com'd it, and got the expected error code relating to sticky turbo vanes! So as the turbo was spooling up, the vanes were opening and getting stuck open, so instead of it over-boosting and causing damage, it would just shut off the turbo and feel like a N/A 1.0l!

So I took the turbo off, got it apart to find lots of horrible black soot and gunk inside. De-greased it and cleaned it all up and got it shiney and new looking! Then got it back together, and fitted. Now it's so nice! Revs up freely, pulls really well, and no sign of it going back into limp mode!

I made it sound like a simple job, but it took ages! Did it all on my mate's driveway with limited tool access. Dropped so many spanners, bolts, swear words. Cut my finger and got blood everywhere too!

So glad it made a difference though! Successful jobs are the best ones. :)

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Agree'd about the successful jobs but they hardly ever happen. However, my indicator relay went on my A3 and it's concealed within the hazard switch. I queued in Euro Car Parts longer than it took me to swap it over but they always take forever when I go into ECP

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Yeah ECP and GSF are the 2 worst companies I have experienced for that, its even impossible to get them on the phone...

Toms Passat is really growing on me, it looks great! Dans A4 makes me miss mine :(

No progress on my car/vans as of late, 4 more weeks til i can drive it again though :D back operations suck...

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Still having trouble with my central locking, I'm reluctant to buy new parts and have them fitted as I'm sure what I have is just being stupid and not actually broken... Grr.

Check the free stuff first - disconnect your battery for a bit, check broken fuses, take the door card off for inspection...

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Symptoms dude??

Front passenger door doesn't respond to central locking (Door key, not remote). However, if you push the knob half way down or pull the handle so it's half way up it will lock / unlock.

Once locked or unlocked it won't respond again...

Sometimes, say 1 in 10, it will unlock when I open the car. It will never lock randomly though.

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What Mr C said, door cards are usually pretty simple to get off, and it could well just be something obvious wrong with the linkage, have a play and you may be happy.

(Says the guys who's car's central locking doesn't work at all, and has had a drivers window that needs pulling up the last inch by hand because it's not in the runners properly, both of which could probably be solved easily by taking the doorcards off, but hasn't be arsed to do anything about either for 9 months.)

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Needs a few things one of the main is getting a new abs sensor and getting the fob coded to the car again but really happy with it, the sound is something else anyway might not be to everyones taste

Audi b6 s4 debadged, full remus exhaust, tv sat nav etc..

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And a little vid , edit can't link to the vid but will post one up tomorrow the exhaust note is unreal.

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